[cobirds] Rare Bird Alert for Colorado November 8, 2009

Compiler: Joyce Takamine Date:November 8, 2009 e-mail: r...@cfo-link.org phone: 303-659-8750 This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 5 am sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. Highlight species include

[cobirds] Prince Lake No. 2, Boulder County, Nov. 8th

Hello, Birders. I stopped by Prince Lake No. 2, Boulder County, earlier this morning, Sunday, Nov. 8th. Of interest was a flock of 219 Cackling Geese and a single Greater White-fronted Goose. Also a flyover American Pipit and a beautiful Prairie Falcon hunting right along the roadside.

[cobirds] No arctic loon, but pacific was there at Marston

All, My wife and I tried to find the arctic loon this morning at Marston from old Wadsworth on the west side of the lake. We couldn't convince ourselves that the loon we scoped was the arctic, but it certainly looked like the pacific. It was on the north side near the water treatment plant.

[cobirds] House Finch Question

For the first time in the 2 1/2 years we have lived in Glacier View Meadows northwest of Fort Collins (Larimer County), we have House Finch at our feeders. Two birds, a male and a female, have been coming to the feeders for the past four days. Our home is at an elevation of 8000 feet, which

[cobirds] birding Crown Hill Park Sunday

I drove up to Crown Hill Nature Park Sunday Nov. 8, 2009. I took the big telephoto lens and spent about an hour walking around the lake. I saw: * American Coot * Northern Shoveler (male female) * Pied-Billed Grebe (winter colors) * Crow (fly over) * Canada Goose *

[cobirds] Lake County Waterfowl

A pair of *Long-tailed Ducks* on Lake Turquoise and a *Surf Scoter* on Mt. Elbert Forebay were both new Lake County species this weekend. Also present: Barrow's Goldeneye, Common Goldeneye, Lesser Scaup, Bufflehead, Gadwall, Common Merganser, Western Grebe, Eared Grebe. No loons or gulls. A

[cobirds] Parasitic Jaeger and more, Sunday

Hi all, Jesse Brauch and I went down to Chatfield Reservoir today to search for the Parasitic Jaeger found there on Friday by Joey Kellner. We found it in the noon hour after just a few minutes of searching at the marina - or rather, it found us, because I first spotted it flying in quickly from

[cobirds] Cranes siskins - Douglas

The Denver Field Ornithologists trip to the Castlewood Canyon area today produced 35 species on a cool, cloudy, but calm morning. We had two surprises. A flock of about 200 Sandhill Cranes flew south, east of the Winkler Ranch. We don't have many November records here. Then two

[cobirds] Virginia Rail downtown Denver

My friend Steve Miller called me on Tuesday about a bird he saw as he pulled into the Barclay Towers (between 16th 17th and Larimer downtown). He said the bird was walking on the sidewalk as most people walked beside it without noticing. After parking the vehicle, he refound the bird in a

[cobirds] Re: Virginia Rail downtown Denver

Given the research showing that large numbers of birds collide with windows in tall buildings like the Barclay Towers (listed at 32 stories high), it is quite possible that this bird may be a survivor of such a collision. Anyone who has viewed a bird after a window collision has seen that they